Marriage To My Fiance With An Illegal Alien Status

3000-6000 is for both the lawyer and the forms for all the 2-3 process of the permanant residency...lawyer should be about 2000, depending on how complicated your case is...You havent mentioned anything unusual that would need more work from a lawyer. You will probably find that if you investigate the forms, you may start feeling like you can do it on your own, without a lawyer. It help just to make sure you dont miss that one little detail...like using a blue pen or black pen...some of the forms actually have that requirement. That is why you want a very experienced lawyer...if you get someone who has done minimal work on immigration, then it would be no different than you trying to do it yourself.

On the www.uscis.gov website, there is also a process where you can go to your local office and talk with someone...INFOPASS...you will make an appointment at your closest office and they can give you some advice as well

Please, if you are doing this process...feel free to update your thread. I am in somewhat of a similar situation and would like to hear about the process from someone actually currently going through it.